Dissertation Methods for Gender Studies 2022/2023

Announcements

Study Skills

SOAS Research Ethics Policies and Procedures

Sample Dissertation Proposals

Sample Dissertations

Announcements

AS1 Part 1 (Moodle TT) restore

Announcements

Announcements

AS1 Part 1 (Moodle TT) restore

Week 1: The Politics of Knowledge Production

Readings

Slides

Guiding Questions

Poststructuralism: WTF? Derrida, Deconstruction and Poststructuralist Theory Explained

Postcolonialism: WTF? An Intro to Postcolonial Theory

Understanding Derrida, Deconstruction &amp; Of Grammatology

How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life

Feral Atlas

Archive Fever - Derrida, Steedman, &amp; the Archival Turn

Embodied Archives of Institutional Violence and Anti-Racist Occupation – Reading Julietta Singh’s ‘No Archive Will Restore You’ in the University

Discussion Forum

Week 2: Ethics, Positionality, Reflexivity

Readings

Slides

Guiding Questions

Postmodernism: WTF? An introduction to Postmodernist Theory

"Positionality &amp; Research: How our Identities Shape Inquiry"

Positionality &amp; Research: Awareness Strategies

Reflexivity and Positionality in Social Sciences Research

Is there an ethical way to research indigenous people? | The Stream

Discussion Forum

Week 3: Feminist Research Methodologies

Readings

Slides

Guiding Questions

The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw Discusses 'Intersectional Feminism'

Health Rebels: A Crip Manifesto for Social Justice

What is the social model of disability?

Sandra Harding: On Standpoint Theory's History and Controversial Reception

Four awkward things to avoid saying when you meet a disabled person - End the Awkward

Janae Sholtz: Interrogating the Cartographies of New Materialist Feminism

(Feminist) New Materialist Pedagogies Beatriz Revelles Benavente &amp; Olga Cielemecka

Crisis of care in the Feminist Review Collective

Article sample from Sophie (experimental methods) 2

Article sample from Sophie (experimental methods) 1

Discussion Forum

Week 4: Decolonial, Transnational Feminist, and Women of Colour/Queer of Colour Methodologies

Readings

Slides

Guiding Questions

Situating Transnational Feminism in a Changing Theoretical Landscape

In Conversation: Rethinking Transnational Feminisms

Women's Rights and Transnational Feminisms Panel

Queerness – postcolonial global perspectives

Queer Times 2021 - Panel 2: Queer Methods

Slow Research Lab

Slow Scholarship

Chandra Mohanty "Wars, Walls, Borders: Anatomies of Violence and Postcolonial Feminist Critique"

Angela Davis on Feminism and Prison Abolition

MMaP Lecture Series: Dr Sonja Boon

Sonja Boon: What the Oceans Remember

In Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of "Undrowned"

Week 5: Methods – What is Qualitative Research?

Reading

Guiding Questions

Slides

Free resources on qualitative research and mixed methods

Qualitative Research Methods - Online Resources

SAGE Study Skills

Qualitative vs Quantitative vs Mixed Methods Research: How To Choose Research Methodology

Qualitative Data Analysis 101 Tutorial: 6 Analysis Methods + Examples

Qualitative Coding Tutorial: How To Code Qualitative Data For Analysis (4 Steps + Examples)

Postmodernism: WTF? An introduction to Postmodernist Theory | Tom Nicholas

Week 6 (Reading Week - Makeup Class): Methods – Ethnography and Autoethnography

Readings

Slides

Guiding Questions

Understanding Derrida, Deconstruction & Of Grammatology

Archive Fever - Derrida, Steedman, & the Archival Turn

"Positionality & Research: How our Identities Shape Inquiry"

Positionality & Research: Awareness Strategies

(Feminist) New Materialist Pedagogies Beatriz Revelles Benavente & Olga Cielemecka

What Is Anthropology? History & Introduction to the Subject w/ Rosie Crawford

Research Aims, Objectives & Research Questions (The Golden Thread) - Definitions + Examples

How To Write A Research Question/Hypothesis & Template | The Research Process Beginners Guide